About the Rich Text Editor in the Participant Center
The Rich Text Editor (RTE) is a constituent-facing WYSIWYG content editor to help create and format content in the Participant Center. The RTE works differently than the Administrator-facing Content Editor.
The RTE is available for Personal Pages and Suggested Email Messages. 
Participant Center 2 (PC2) requires RTE enablement while it is optional for previous Participant Center versions. To enable, select the Rich Text Editor options described in Advanced Miscellaneous Options.
How does it work?
When all RTE options are enabled:
A participant can
Copy and paste or drag and drop an image or link that is already hosted on a web page into the editor
Use the Paste from Word icon to add a link
A participant cannot
Upload or drag and drop images from a local computer. This can generate the error, "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding."
Paste images from Microsoft Word
Insert URLs and expect they will turn into hyperlinks
Tip: Some content should be formatted in the editor and not copied. For example, text can be properly underlined in the RTE, but copy and pasting underlined text from another source could produce the error, "Message Body contains HTML tags that are not allowed." This is because HTML tags are attempting to copy as well. One option is to copy the text into a basic text editor (such as Notepad) to remove any formatting, and then copy and paste it into Luminate. This removes the formatting from another source. See KB 72109.
What will the user see?
Users can highlight content and format using the following icons:
| Icon | Function |
|---|---|
 | Spell Check checks the spelling of text content. |
 | Font Family Selection displays the selected content in the font family selected. |
 | Font Size Selection displays the selected content in the font size selected. |
 | Text Color enables you to click the color in which to display the selected content. |
 | Background Color enables you to click the color to display behind the selected content. |
 | Paste from Word pastes the last copied or cut Microsoft Word document content from the clipboard into the editor window. |
 | Bold displays the selected content in bold typeface. |
 | Italicize displays the selected content in italics typeface. |
 | Underline underlines the selected content. |
| Strikethrough draws a line through the selected content. | |
 | Align Left lines up the selected content with the left margin of the component. |
 | Align Center centers the selected content in the middle of the component margins. |
 | Align Right lines up the selected content with the right margin. |
 | Justify Text justifies the selected content along both margins. |
 | Bulleted List creates a list with bullet points for each paragraph in the selected content. |
 | Numbered List creates a numbered, or ordered, list from the paragraphs in the selected content. |
 | Indent moves the selected content block one tab stop to the right (or to rest against the right margin if no tab stops are available). |
 | Outdent moves the selected content block one tab stop to the left (or to the left margin if no tab stops are available). |
 | Undo reverts the last action. Click again to continue reverting actions. |
 | Redo restores the last action that was undone. Click again to continue restoring actions. |